Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Choice is a signature of our species.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache.